When Jiang Da and Han Lao were thinking about countermeasures for Gongsun Zhan's transformation, the world of "Three Kingdoms" had already begun to usher in major changes.

Seeing that the world was in turmoil and the Han dynasty was in danger, Emperor Ling of the Han Dynasty did not want his hundreds of years of inheritance to be cut off into his hands, so he struggled out of the pleasures of the West Garden, and sought a good way to govern the country from the hundred officials in the court.

At this moment, Liu Yan, who ended his term of office and served in Luoyang, put forward his own opinion: The reason why the people continue to rebel is because the local governor bribes and buys officials, exploits the people, causes the people to rebel and leave, and at the same time makes the court bear the bitter consequences of their evil.

The best way to change this situation is undoubtedly to send honest and prestigious court dignitaries to serve as local governors, and to serve as pastors for the court while pacifying the people.

In order to set an example for the ministers, Liu Yan invited himself to be the pastor of Jiaozhou.

After thinking about the reasons for these rebellions, Emperor Ling also thought so, and agreed to Liu Yan's proposal, with Liu Yan as the pastor of Yizhou, Huang Wan as the pastor of Yuzhou, and Liu Yu as the pastor of Youzhou.

However, what Emperor Ling did not expect was that this measure not only did not play its due role, but instead became the starting point for the late Han Dynasty to divide and become independent and attack each other.

For Liu Yan, inviting himself to be the pastor of Jiaozhou is definitely not what he wants, and the reason why he goes to the place where birds don't poop in Jiaozhou is just that he sees the continuous war in the Central Plains and is afraid that it will affect him, so he wants to take refuge in Jiaozhou.

No, after hearing that Yizhou has dragon energy, Liu Yan's heart full of ambition also began to move, maybe this is also a good opportunity for their vein to ascend to the throne.

Although Yizhou is relatively close to the Central Plains, but Yizhou's geographical environment advantages are far better than Jiaozhou, after they occupy Yizhou, they can retreat to hold Hanzhong, become a family of their own, and enter the troops out of Qishan, looking at the Central Plains.

coincided with the greed of the new Yizhou assassin Shi, and the reports of the rampant expropriation kept coming, which also provided Liu Yan with an excellent excuse to go to Yizhou.

So Liu Yan reported to the court again before the appointment of the imperial court came down, asking the imperial court to change himself to Yizhou pastor and let him go to Yizhou to rectify the rule of officials, and sure enough, Emperor Ling of Han did not refuse Liu Yan's request, and let Liu Yan get his wish to enter Yizhou.

It's just that Liu Yan didn't expect that his own little abacus might not work, because someone in Yizhou had already been eyeing him, and then quietly waiting for his arrival.

Although most people knew that the giant of the Han Empire was terminally ill and crumbling, everyone was waiting for the opportunity to rush up and bite a piece of fat and share a bowl of soup.

Even the Liu clan, who are also the masters of the Han Empire, have the same idea, waiting for the decline and death of the empire, so as to re-establish a new throne of their own on the bones of the deceased.

However, there will always be some outliers who will swim against the current, trying to use their own strength to change this ending, and the new Youzhou Mu Liu Yu is such a person.

At the moment of the fall of Youzhou, Liu Yu, who was in danger, accepted the appointment of Youzhou Mu without hesitation and went to Youzhou to turn the tide.

Liu Yan is not a nationalist, nor is he a militant, so after arriving in Jicheng, the first thing he did was not to expand the army, but to streamline the troops, and then give favors and recruit the rebels.

Although Liu Yu's measures were incompatible with the actions of Gongsun Zhan and other generals, with the fame and credibility accumulated by Liu Yu, these measures undoubtedly played a great role, accelerating the disintegration and collapse of Zhang Chun and others.

However, after quelling Zhang Chun's rebellion, Liu Yu, who has always advocated recuperation and recuperation, and Gongsun Zhan, who is bent on developing his own power and even indulging soldiers to plunder the people, began to have contradictions.

Although Liu Yan is the lord of Youzhou, Gongsun Chan should also be restrained by Liu Yu, but helplessly, Gongsun Chan supports the army and does not listen to Liu Yu's dispatch, coupled with the lack of prestige of the imperial court and the decline in control, Liu Yu is also helpless about this, so the seeds of contradiction are planted.

When a person is focused on one thing, then his senses and control over other things decrease. is like a thief, carrying a dagger with him, not to hurt others, but to be able to rely on a little bit to save his life when he is caught, when he is about to be killed.

However, when he was found to be stealing, although there was no danger to his life, when he only had the idea of "escaping" in his mind, all the principles and bottom lines would be forgotten by him, and everything would serve the matter of "escaping", so that it became natural to take out the dagger he carried with him, stab or even stab someone to death.

Although this was not his intention to carry the dagger, he definitely did not want to hurt anyone.

And now, Han Lonely and Jiang Da are also slowly falling into this situation.

For the four people who were dissatisfied with Gongsun Zhan's current behavior and decided to leave here and return to the Central Plains for development, their primary goal now is to accumulate military exploits as soon as possible, and then be promoted, seek an external position from Gongsun Zhan, and leave here.

For other things, they don't have much energy to care about, in fact, they are powerless to change and choose to escape.

In this way, they complained less and less about the behavior of others to plunder the people, and in the face of the sarcasm and complaints of the people, they also changed from being ashamed at the beginning to now facing them calmly, or rather indifferently.

Jiang Da and the others don't know their changes, although they still can't bear to see such things, but they themselves are powerless, whether it is Gongsun Zhan's military orders, or the affection of their comrades after life and death, it is not something they can disobey.

Since there is nothing you can do, you can only choose to turn a blind eye or try to avoid it.

Although it has begun to be a little numb, it has not yet reached the point of joining the same stream, breaking through his own bottom line, and wielding a butcher's knife from the people he guards.

Therefore, the matter of plundering the people, Han Lao and Jiang Da will never do it, but for the military action against the Wuhuan people, they can't refuse, although they can charge the Wuhuan cavalry without hesitation, but for the ordinary Wuhuan people involved in the rebellion, Han Lao They are also ruthless, and only choose to give the credit to other teams.

Although this kind of outlier behavior has begun to slowly lead to them being isolated by others, Han Lao and the others still do not change their original intentions and do not give up their bottom line, although this has deviated far from their original thoughts.

Han Lonely, Jiang Da is in their camp.

Guo Yang, the little fat man who returned from the dispatch, flipped off his horse and sat on the ground weakly and said.

"How long will it take for us to get out of here? If you look at the other teams, the faces of those people, I can't stand it anymore. ”

Turned over and dismounted, pulled out a bag of water bladders, and then poured it all on his head in one breath, shook the water droplets on his head, and said in a tone that also revealed exhaustion.

"Bear with me, we're almost done with it, and then we can leave this hellish place, and we don't have to watch them do it anymore."

"I don't know if I'll live until then."

Guo Yang's arms were weakly supporting his body, looking up at the afterglow of the sunset, and said helplessly.